August 11, 2009

PRESIDENT NIXON JOINS WALL STREET

He nabbed himself an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in the movie Frost/Nixon and now his career seems in renaissance. Frank Langella maybe a name you have yet to hear off, partly due to his restricted film credits on his hand.

The veteran will join the cast of Oliver Stone's Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps. On this movie, Langella will play the role of Lewis Zabel, an old-school mentor to Shia LaBeouf whom is on the role of a young broker who comes under the wicked influence of Michael Douglas' Gordon Gekko.

In the meantime, Josh Brolin has entered a talk to join the cast, replacing Javier Bardem, which in fact I believe has been done so. The movie will be released April 23 next year. This 20th Century Fox production is of course a sequel to 1987's Oscar-winning Wall Street.

The plot - "As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader (Jacob, played by Shia LaBeouf)partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko (played by Michael Douglas) on a two-tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out who was responsible for the death of the young trader's mentor (played by Frank Langella)."